{"id":47201,"date":"2015-10-18T21:22:16","date_gmt":"2015-10-18T21:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=47201"},"modified":"2015-10-18T21:25:20","modified_gmt":"2015-10-18T21:25:20","slug":"the-abstraction-and-the-icon-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=47201","title":{"rendered":"Mass shooting: an abstraction and an icon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; the Aurora cinema shooting &#8212; a forensic view, and one through Mantegna&#8217;s eyes ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>Two ways to be chilled once again by the 2012 slaughter in the Century 16 movie theater in Aurora, Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>The forensic view comes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pictures\/us-mass-shootings\/11\/\">courtesy of the <strong>Colorado DA<\/strong>&#8216;s office<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/aurora-century-16-movie-theater1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/aurora-century-16-movie-theater1.png\" alt=\"aurora century 16 movie theater\" width=\"600\" height=\"407\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-47208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/aurora-century-16-movie-theater1.png 600w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/aurora-century-16-movie-theater1-300x204.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Mantegna<\/strong>&#8216;s image of <strong>St Sebastian<\/strong> &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/St._Sebastian_(Mantegna)\">one of three he painted<\/a> &#8212; affords us a reminder of human suffering.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/St_Sebastian_3_Mantegna.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/St_Sebastian_3_Mantegna.png\" alt=\"St_Sebastian_3_Mantegna\" width=\"600\" height=\"662\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-47235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/St_Sebastian_3_Mantegna.png 600w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/St_Sebastian_3_Mantegna-272x300.png 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The film that was showing at the <strong>Aurora Century 16<\/strong> that midnight was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1345836\/\"><strong>The Dark Knight Rises<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; the Aurora cinema shooting &#8212; a forensic view, and one through Mantegna&#8217;s eyes ] . Two ways to be chilled once again by the 2012 slaughter in the Century 16 movie theater in Aurora, Colorado. The forensic view comes courtesy of the Colorado DA&#8216;s office: Mantegna&#8216;s image of St Sebastian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[384,526,627,886,864,67,861,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-charles-cameron","category-doublequotes","category-forensics","category-gun-control","category-movies","category-tragedy","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47201"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47240,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47201\/revisions\/47240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}